Al-Attiyah Foundation

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Foundation and Vice Chairman of the UN Global
Compact. A director of Saudi Aramco (2007-) and on
the advisory board of Envision Energy. He was Chairman
of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1998–2001), of Anglo
American plc (2002-2009) and of Hermes Equity
Ownership Services (2009-2016). Born in Antigua, after
a doctorate in geology in 1966 at Cambridge, he worked
for Shell starting as an exploration geologist, living in
Holland, Spain, Oman, Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey
and Malaysia, and the UK.

Mark Moody-Stuart is Chairman of the Global Compact
He served on the China Council for International
Cooperation on Environment and Development 2003-
2011. He chaired task forces on renewable energy for
the G8 and for business for the 2002 World Summit
on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Board
Member of the Global Reporting Initiative 2002-7.
Author of “Responsible Leadership – Lessons from
the front line of sustainability and ethics”. He was
appointed a Knight Commander of St Michael and St
George in 2000

Nobuo Tanaka

Nobuo Tanaka is Chairman of The Sasakawa Peace
Foundation. As Executive Director of the International
Energy Agency (IEA) from 2007 to 2011, he initiated
a collective release of oil stocks in June 2011. He also
played a crucial and personal role in the strengthening
of ties with major non-Member energy players,
including China and India. He began his career in 1973
in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI),
and has served in a number of high-ranking positions,
including Director-General of the Multilateral Trade
System Department.

He was deeply engaged in bilateral trade issues with
the US as Minister for Industry,Trade and Energy at
the Embassy of Japan, Washington DC. He has also
served twice as Director for Science, Technology
and Industry (DSTI) of the Paris-based international
organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD).

Dr. Mark H. Weichold

Dr. Mark H. Weichold, Halliburton Engineering
Global Programs Professor and Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, is an electrical engineer
and has worked for General Dynamics Ft./p>

Worth Division, Motorola in Austin, TX and the
U.S. Army Electronic Technology and Devices
Laboratory in Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Dr. Weichold
has served as the University’s Associate Provost
for Undergraduate Programs and also as the
Dean and CEO of its branch campus in Doha,
Qatar. He also currently serves as the executive
director of the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station’s Global Initiatives office.

In 2009, he was recognized as a Regents
Professor for his outstanding work and exemplary
contributions to Texas A&M University. In
2013, he was awarded the Abdullah bin Hamad
Al Attiyah International Energy Award for
‘Lifetime Achievement for the Advancement of
Education’. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member
of the American Physical Society, and a registered
professional engineer in the State of Texas.

John Defterios

John Defterios is the CNNMoney Emerging
Markets Editor. Based in the network’s Abu Dhabi
bureau since 2011 his reporting focuses on the
top business stories from emerging economies.
Defterios has more than two decades of financial
news and current affairs experience covering
some of the landmarks events during that period
including the Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall,
the World Trade Centre bombings and G8/G20
summits from his postings in London, Washington,
New York, Los Angeles, Rome and the Middle East.

Defterios has covered the energy sector for
more than a quarter century, including key OPEC
meetings since 1990. He has gone into oil and
gas fields the world over, including the North
Slope of Alaska, Central Asia and throughout
the Middle East from his current base in Abu
Dhabi. He is a World Economic Forum media
leader and member of the Global Agenda
Council on the Arab World and has served as
Chairman of the Business Week Leadership
Forums in London, Beijing and New York, the
World Islamic Economic Forum amongst others.

Ali Aissaoui

After serving at energy policy level in Algeria,
including representing the country on the
OPEC board of governors, Ali seized on the
opportunity offered to him by the late Robert
Mabro, in the mid-1990s, to join the Oxford
Institute for Energy Studies and conceptualise
his experience. The books he authored or
contributed to during that period provide key
insights on how history, economic policy and
international relations combine to shape the
political economy of oil and gas.

During his last full-time position, working for a
Pan-Arab multilateral energy bank, as its head of
research, Ali has developed original approaches to
decision-making. These have included a consistent
mapping of the energy investment climates as
well as the systematic scanning of the risks and
financeability of large-scale energy projects across
the Middle East and North Africa. Ali is a member
of the Oxford Energy Policy Club, the Paris Energy
Club, and the Arab Energy Club.